Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swiss writer Johann Georg Zimmermann.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann / Johann Georg Zimmermann was a Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician. He was the private physician of George III and later Frederick the Great.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.